Best AI Tools for Developers

Hand-picked AI tools that developers actually use — from LLM APIs to local models. Prices verified, no pay-to-rank.

OpenAI API

Free tier + paid

GPT models via API for apps, agents and automation. Pay-per-token.

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Anthropic Claude

Free tier + paid

Claude 3/4 family — strong reasoning and long-context models.

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GitHub Copilot

$10/mo

AI pair programmer inside VS Code, JetBrains and CLI.

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Ollama

Free

Run open-source LLMs locally. Free, offline, private.

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Hugging Face

Free + paid

Model hub, datasets, Spaces and inference APIs.

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LangChain

Free (OSS)

Framework for building LLM applications with tools and agents.

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Cline

Free (OSS)

Autonomous coding agent in your editor. Local-first, open source.

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OpenRouter

Pay-per-token

Single API to many models with unified pricing.

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